"On complaint, the district court of the United States in the district in which the complainant resides, or has his principal place of business, or in which the agency records are situated, or in the District of Columbia, has jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant. In such a case the court shall determine the matter de novo, and may examine the contents of such agency records in camera to determine whether such records or any part thereof shall be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in subsection (b) of this section, and the burden is on the agency to sustain its action. "

If the request submitted by the FOIA requester is too broad, then the FOIA officer may deny the request and notify the FOIA requester of such.

- If a FOIA Request “is too broad, then the FOIA officer may deny the request and notify the FOIA
requester . . . .” 4 M.S.C. 5 § 5307. However, this specific procedural flaw in a Request must not be
construed as a loophole through which agencies could deny the public access to legitimate
information, as it has been held that broad, sweeping requests lacking specificity are not permissible.3
- ‘Broad’ Requests are Requests that are not “sufficient [to enable] a professional employee of the
agency who was familiar with the subject area of the request to locate the record with a reasonable
amount of effort.” H.R. Rep. No. 93-876, 93d Cong., 2d Sess. 6 (1974). A ‘broad’ Request will not
‘reasonably describe’ the materials sought. Burdensomeness of a FOIA Request because of its size, in
and of itself, does not entitle an agency to deny that request
- Petitioner’s request is quite specific, and we contend that it is not overly ‘broad’ for the purposes of
4 M.S.C. 5 § 5307.

(1) any and all communications circulated by any mean, including Discord Direct Messages (DMs), from or to the Department of Justice, and/or the Attorney General’s Office, including Attorney General Impacto, between 1 September 2025 9:12 PM GMT-3 and the time you’re receiving this, relating to Attorney General Directives No. 2025-83125-01, 02, and 03, and/or containing the keywords “directive”, “AG”, “attorney general”, “memo”, “memorandum”, “memoranda”, “npz_v”, “county”, “security”, “classification”, “classifications”, “classified”, “information”, “confidential”, “secret”, “top secret”, “clearance”, “law”, “enforcement”, “police”, “officer”, “officers”;
(2) any and all communications circulated by any mean, including Discord Direct Messages (DMs), among the Department of Justice, and/or the Attorney General’s
Office, including Attorney General Impacto, between 1 September 2025 9:12 PM GMT-3 and the time you’re receiving this, relating to Attorney General Directives No. 2025-83125-01, 02, and 03, and/or containing the keywords “directive”, “AG”, “attorney general”, “memo”, “memorandum”, “memoranda”, “npz_v”, “county”, “security”, “classification”, “classifications”, “classified”, “information”, “confidential”, “secret”, “top secret”, “clearance”, “law”, “enforcement”, “police”, “officer”, “officers”.